Student Engagement
· Implement strategies for reaching research-based targets for active student engagement · Increase formative assessment during direct instruction · Provide consistent feedback to students on their academic performance and behavior · Reduce classroom management issues and behavior problems · Increase learning for all students
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Rigor
· Increase amount of critical thinking required for students · Design rigorous tasks to help students meet rigorous objectives · Incorporate critical thinking questions into instruction · Align rigor between objectives, questions, tasks, and assessment
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Differentiating Instruction
· Learn more about your students as learners · Explore strategies for differentiating instruction based on your students’ learning profiles · Offer students authentic choices for showing their learning · Increase student motivation to engage in academic tasks · Implement differentiated activities and assignments to challenge students at all levels
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Project Based Learning
· Create opportunities for student exploration of real-world problems · Challenge students to acquire deeper knowledge of core content · Increase student collaboration around solving complex problems · Offer students authentic choices for thinking and learning · Strengthen students’ skills in reading informational text · Utilize formative assessment and rubrics to promote high-quality work
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Sheltered Instruction & Dual Immersion
· Implement research-based strategies for increasing academic and language learning for English Learners and students in dual immersion programs
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Writing
· Increase effective writing instruction to support informative and argument writing · Calibrate scoring of student writing using common rubrics
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